Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-07-23
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Reform Campaign. The article
started out by saying that the re
formers ''hired a hall, flung out &
flag and officially an.
nOunced that the campaign was
opened. and that everybody who
was not for Nichols was a ringstel
and hypocrite." The States also
stated just previous to this official
announcement the organ of the Re-
formers said:
The professional politician
trades; he never gives something
iqr nothing. lie may log roll, he
may propose combination; hut he
would regard it as an act of ex-
treme folly to accord 20 any man a
disintereSted and uncompensated
support. But the pubic necessity,
the popular demand is Il clean
ticket all the way through. The
name o. one professional politician
Of. the ticket rCoutd compromise the
,ohotc ticket. Fortunately there is
10 need to seek all alliance Of that
that sort"
But the States article is SO good
and SO we'll expressed that its own
words are given as follows.
This was a distinctively reform
manifesto, and so emphatic was i;
that ii began to look as though
there was some serious idea of a
reform movement entertained BY
the supporters OF Gen. Nichols.
But, alas ! it appears that ali alii-
ancc or bargain was subsequently,
made with the city ring whose
bosses have manipulated the cleo
tons III this city for years past;
and now find the Reform campaign
in full blast under the auspices oil
the "Big Four" whose power and
influence ramify the whole city,
and has been, not tho chief, but
almost the sole agency in the cor
rupting OF election methods In New
Orleans.
The Reform movement was orig.
lnaliy organized, pyofessediy, to |
defeat this very influence; indeed !
Gen. Nichols joined in the Hnut |
bolt in the First District. in 1881, |
professedly to defeat and over.
throw this influence personified in
MIR. John Fitzpatrick and Mr.. It ON
Dulfey in that District. But now
hat a bargain has been made by
he Reformers with this very in
iuence, we find every so-called
Reform i'll the State seeking, by
'very act of sophistry, to bellttle
" rather conceal its extent and
evil power in our politics. Indeed
We find this very power, which the
RetOrmers, including Gov. Nichols
n 1884 deemed so detrimental to
he city and the Democratic narty
mo 10 honest government, that 10
lefeat it they went outside of the !
'arty organization, set up a select
party, allied themselves with War
moth, Lewis, Radical United States
supervisor Norton, and the whole
Radical Custom-House Ring, and
,ut i'll peril the election Of the
Democratic electoral ticket in
and as it seemed then
he electors of Cleveland. |,
Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Duffy
7ere the chief Democratic bosses ;
n the First District then; and it ,
'as the influence of Fitzpatrick {
nd Duffy against which the Re-
primers organized bolt, Ga bolt ,
ure and simpie,) from the DEM 9
cratic party. Now upon Messrs. /,
fitzpatrick and Duffy in the First i
district and their compatriots UP c
'wn, the Reformers rely to carry | /
lis city for Gov. Nichols. C
Now we should like for some of
ur Reform contemporaries in the O
ountry who are making light of c
lls alliance between the saints {
nd the bosses, which threatens to
nralyze all prospects of refo. a in
Olitical methods here, to Answer
lese interrogatorles:
First: Are methods that are cor =
!pt when used against Gov. :,
icholls, honest, legal and com. :
endable when used in his INTEREST," y
Second: On what principle of !
,nest dealing with the people can !.
ov. Nichols and his supporters, q
no bolted the party and sought to y
feat Col. St. Martin, as honest a y,
an and better Democrat than y
y of them in 1884, because the T. T.
invention which nominated him v
as suspected to be engineered by ?
fitzpatrick and Duffy, on what -
lncipie can they, we say, after q,
at course, now engage in an open .,
ID undisputed alliance with Fitz- ~
trick and Duffy, and their allies "
ii retainers throughout the city, .,
make Gen. Nichols Governor "
Third: If these questions can- ~
It be satisfactorily answered, are ~
It al the reform pretensions of :.
c Ro'ormers mere miserable nv. :" 81
cracy? and are they not playing y,
\ fashioned, ough-and-tumble e. T,
iltlcs instead of Reform" - -